Posted on 09/17/2015 5:57:57 AM PDT by marshmallow
Council of Cardinals will study the way the Church identifies and appoints bishops
Pope Francis has asked his international Council of Cardinals to study the way the church vets, identifies and appoints bishops around the world, looking particularly at the qualities needed in a bishop today.
The council met in Rome in the Pope’s presence from Monday to Wednesday.
Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said the nine-member council’s main task is to assist Francis with the ongoing reorganisation of the Roman Curia. But from the beginning the Pope said he wanted the group to advise him on matters of Church governance in general.
With more than 150 new bishops being named each year in the Latin Rite Church, identifying suitable candidates is a normal part of the governance of the universal Church, the spokesman said.
“There is a long process” for naming bishops, Fr Lombardi said. It includes “questionnaires that are sent out to people who may know the candidates and then the information is gathered, usually by the nunciature”, and recommendations are forwarded either to the Congregation for Bishops or, in the case of the Church’s mission lands, to the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. The congregations make recommendations to the Pope.
Obviously, Fr Lombardi said, the key part of the process is formulating the questions and collecting information based on the characteristics essential for a bishop “in the world today, what might be the requirements and, therefore, what questions should one be attentive to in [developing] the questionnaires.”
The need to review the questions and the process as a whole is constant, he said.
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Gotta believe in globull warming and social justice.
I guess he’s bothered by how many good, traditional bishops have been appointed recently. Whenever they say anything like “the needs of the Church today,” you know it’s trouble.
In other words, how can I make sure to appoint more bishops like Cupich and McElroy, who are no more appalled by 58 million abortions than they are by unemployment?
(*groan*) Just shoot me now...
How ‘bout they hold firmly and teach clearly the sacred truths passed on to us by Scripture, Apostolic Tradition and legitimate compendiums of magisterial teaching, e.g. the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
The Cardinals need to review how they select a Pope!
That's no good you "demander of certainty in all things".
That's the sort of "rigid", "inflexible" answer which will cause them to show the door to a seminarian.
Must be "pastoral" with the "smell of the sheep".
Easy: Modernist or Catholic? Vote Modernist.
Well met.
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